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- 450 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
matter if it expresses the meaning?), that she Hved by her
work, that she had her mother and you to keep (ach, hang it,
you are frowning again) , and I resolved to offer her all my
money — thirty thousand roubles I could have realised then — if
she would run away with me here, to Petersburg. Of course I
should have vowed eternal love, rapture, and so on. Do you
know, I was so wild about her at that time that if she had told
me to poison Marfa Petrovna or to cut her throat and to marry
herself, it would have been done at once! But it ended in the
catastrophe of which you know already. You can fancy how
frantic I was when I heard that Marfa Petrovna had got hold of
that scoundrelly attorney, Luzhin, and had almost made a
match between them — which would really have been just the
same thing as I was proposing. Wouldn't it? Wouldn't it? I
notice that you've begun to be very attentive . . . you interest-
ing young man. . . ."
Svidrigai'lov struck the table with his fist impatiently. He
was flushed. Raskolnikov saw clearly that the glass or glass and
a half of champagne that he had sipped almost unconsciously
was affecting him — and he resolved to take advantage of the
opportunity. He felt very suspicious of Svidrigaiilov.
"Well, after what you have said, I am fully convinced that
you have come to Petersburg with designs on my sister," he said
directly to Svidrigai'lov, in order to irritate him further.
"Oh, nonsense," said Svidrigai'lov, seeming to rouse himjelf.
"Why, I told you . . . besides your sister can't endure me."
"Yes, I am certain that she can't, but that's not the point."
"Are you so sure that she can't?" Svidriga'ilov screwed up
his eyes and smiled mockingly. "You are right, she doesn't love
me, but you can never be sure of what has passed between hus-
band and wife or lover and mistress. There's always a little cor-
ner which remains a secret to the world and is only known to
those two. Will you answer for it that 'Avdotya Romanovna
regarded me with aversion?"
"From some words you've dropped, I notice that you still
have designs — and of course evil ones — on Dounia and mean to
carry them out promptly."
"What, have I dropped words like that?" Svidrigailov asked
in naive dismay, taking not the slightest notice of the epithet
bestowed on his designs.
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